《21世纪大学英语 21st Century College English》课程教学资源（PPT课件讲稿）Book 2 Unit 7 Text A Thinking - A Neglected Art

2lst Century College English: Book 2 Unit 7: Text A Thinking A Neglected Art

Unit 7 : Text A Thinking: A Neglected Art 21st Century College English: Book 2

Unit 7: TextA Lead-in Activities Text Organization Reading and Writing skills ● Language points Guided practice ● Assignment

Unit 7: Text A • Lead-in Activities • Text Organization • Reading and Writing Skills • Language Points • Guided Practice • Assignment

Lead-in activities Questions for Discussion 1. What do you think about thinking? 2. Do you like thin king? Why? 3. How often is the case that when a friend asks you what are you thin king? and you answer nothing?

Lead-in Activities 1. What do you think about thinking? 2. Do you like thinking? Why? 3. How often is the case that when a friend asks you "what are you thinking?" and you answer "nothing" ? Questions for Discussion

Text organization The structure of Text A L. The problem lies not so much in our institutions as in our attitudes Para. 1-3 I. Social prejudice against thinking affects childrens attitudes towards study Para.4-10 l. Conclusion: Americans should believe in thinkings importance. The country runs on ideas Para.11-12

I. The problem lies not so much in our institutions as in our attitudes II. Social prejudice against thinking affects children’s attitudes towards study. III. Conclusion: Americans should believe in thinking’s importance. The country runs on ideas. The structure of Text A Para. 1-3 Para. 4~10 Para. 11-12 Text Organization

Reading writing skills 1. Reading skill: Identifying false logic Not everything you read is true, and not every writers arguments make sense. One common mistake in logic is proceeding from a false assumption: basing an argument on a statement that is unsupported, a matter of opinion or simply untrue. Sometimes writers may not realize that their assumptions are false; other times they use false assumptions deliberately, because they want to promote an idea or make a point, and dont really care how they do it! You may, of course agree with the authors aims and opinions, even though their arguments are false. But it's only by questioning a writers arguments that we can formulate our own viewpoint, come to our own conclusions, choose to agree or disagree. This kind of intraction with the ideas in a text is crucial to real comprehension

Reading & Writing Skills 1. Reading skill: Identifying false logic Not everything you read is true, and not every writer’s arguments make sense. One common mistake in logic is proceeding from a false assumption: basing an argument on a statement that is unsupported, a matter of opinion or simply untrue. Sometimes writers may not realize that their assumptions are false; other times they use false assumptions deliberately, because they want to promote an idea or make a point, and don’t really care how they do it! You may , of course, agree with the authors’ aims and opinions, even though their arguments are false. But it’s only by questioning a writer’s arguments that we can formulate our own viewpoint, come to our own conclusions, choose to agree or disagree. This kind of intraction with the ideas in a text is crucial to real comprehension

Reading writing skills 2. Writing skill: There are four types of writingdescription narration, argumentation and exposition This text is a piece of argumentative writing and follows usual patterns of an argumentation or meet the following requirements: viewpoint reasons Train Ss the ability of developing a passage with viewpoint reasons Ask ss to write a viewpoint reasons paragraph on one of the topics suggested on P204, making a reference to the sample paragraph on this page

Reading & Writing Skills 2. Writing Skill: There are four types of writing—description , narration , argumentation and exposition. This text is a piece of argumentative writing and follows usual patterns of an argumentation or meet the following requirements: viewpoint + reasons Train Ss the ability of developing a passage with viewpoint + reasons. Ask Ss to write a viewpoint + reasons paragraph on one of the topics suggested on P204, making a reference to the sample paragraph on this page

Intensive Study ° Intensive Study · Difficult sentences Key words, phrases usages Comprehension exercises

• Intensive Study • Difficult sentences • Key words, phrases & usages • Comprehension exercises Intensive Study

Intensive Study Thinking: A Neglected art by Carolyn Kane I It is generally agreed that the American education system is in deep trouble. Everyone is aware of the horrible facts: school systems are running out of money, teachers can't spell, students can't read high school graduates cant even find China on the map

Intensive Study Thinking: A Neglected Art by Carolyn Kane 1 It is generally agreed that the American education system is in deep trouble. Everyone is aware of the horrible facts: school systems are running out of money, teachers can’t spell, students can’t read, high school graduates can’t even find China on the map

Intensive Study 2 Most of us know or think we know who is to blame: liberal courts spineless school boards, ridiculous government regulations. It's easy to select a bad quy 3 But possibly the problem lies not so much in our institutions as in our attitudes. It is sad that although most of us claim that we believe in education, we place no value on intellectual activity

Intensive Study 2 Most of us know, or think we know, who is to blame: liberal courts, spineless school boards, ridiculous government regulations. It’s easy to select a bad guy. 3 But possibly the problem lies not so much in our institutions as in our attitudes. It is sad that although most of us claim that we believe in education, we place no value on intellectual activity

Intensive Study We americans are a charitable and humane people: We have institutions devoted to every good cause from rescuing homeless cats to preventing World War l. But what have we done to promote the art of thinking? Certainly we make no room for thought in our daily lives Suppose a man were to say to his friends, I'm not going to PTA tonight or the baseball game, or whatever) because I need some time to myself, some time to think"? Such a man would be shunned by his neighbors; his family would be ashamed of him. What if a teen-ager were to say, " I'm not going to the dance tonight because I need some time to think"? His parents would immediately start looking in the Yellow Pages for a psychiatrist

Intensive Study 4 We Americans are a charitable and humane people: We have institutions devoted to every good cause from rescuing homeless cats to preventing World War III. But what have we done to promote the art of thinking? Certainly we make no room for thought in our daily lives. Suppose a man were to say to his friends, “I’m not going to PTA tonight (or the baseball game, or whatever) because I need some time to myself, some time to think”? Such a man would be shunned by his neighbors; his family would be ashamed of him. What if a teen-ager were to say, “I’m not going to the dance tonight because I need some time to think”? His parents would immediately start looking in the Yellow Pages for a psychiatrist